The history of slang

[chalmers]

I saw amdhunter in another post mention the origin of the phrase 'Goodnight, sleep tight"...from ropes being pulled while in bed causing the mattress to be more or less tight.

I find this stuff really interesting. Words and phrases that we use every day actually do not make much sense when you think about it. What about 'Cute as a button'...another one I can think of is..

Giving someone a cold shoulder, which dates back to welcome guests in a house being given a hot meal, but those who were not welcome were given a cold shoulder of mutton.

Cool stuff, anyone got any?

 

[videogames101]

Nef - originates on the internet forum Anandtech Off Topic.

 

[Colt45]

might as well make this the history of wives' tales, with an intro like that.

 

[SandEagle]

hey baby, let me pull up to that bumper and smack dat monkey

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Etymology is the study

 

[Sea Moose]

Australian slang

DILIGAF - do i look like i give a fuck

 

[IronWing]

Box of birds

 

[Iron Woode]

straight dope website probably has a bunch of them.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: chalmers
I saw amdhunter in another post mention the origin of the phrase 'Goodnight, sleep tight"...from ropes being pulled while in bed causing the mattress to be more or less tight.

That's bullshit, not slang. Don't believe everything that gets forwarded to you from your great aunt's hairdresser on AOL.

 

[Farang]

"slipped off jason" is commonly used to describe an injury inflicted during an accident. For example, I slipped off jason today at work when I dropped a wrench on my foot and bruised my toe.

Interestingly enough it came from when a woman on facebook described a tear in her vagina (which required 13 stitches to heal), telling her friends only that she got it because she "slipped off jason." she was unaware that she was writing to the public and it became an internet sensation.